Guard and sash-retainer for street-cars.



PATENTED APR. 18, 1905. E. T. ROBINSON. v GUARD AND SASH RETAINERFOR STREET CARSF APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2, 1904.

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GUARD AND SASH RETAINER-FOR STREET CARS.

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UNITED STATES Patented April 18, 1905.

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ED'WARD T. ROBINSON, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO ST. LOUIS CAR COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION.

GUARD AND SASH-RETAINER FOR STREET-CARS. v

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 787,641, dated April 18, 1905.

Application filed September 2, 1904. Serial No. 223,093.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD T. ROBINSON, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Guards and Sash-Retainers for Street-Cars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to means for supporting the guards of street-car windows and retaining the window-sashes against outward movement, the object of the inventionbeing to provide a simple means for guarding the windows when the lower sashes are open and which may be readily and quickly moved into a position to permit of withdrawing the sash in an outward direction, thereby facilitating the repairing and cleaning of the car.

Figure I is an elevation of a series of carwindows having my guards and supports applied thereto. Fig. II is an enlarged vertical section taken on line II II, Fig. I. Fig. III is an enlarged horizontal section taken on line III III, Fig. I. Fig. IV is an enlarged View of the hinged portions of the upper ends of the guard-upright supports and a fragment of one of the window-posts, the supports being shown detached from the hinge -'pintle mounted on the window-post. Fig. V is a vertical section taken on line V V, Fig. IV, showing the parts of the upper hinge in assembled condition. Fig. VI is an enlarged view of fragments of one of the window-posts and the guard-supporting uprights at the location of one of the turn-buttons securing the free ends of the guards. Fig. VIIis avertical section taken on line VII VII, Fig. VI. Fig. VIII is a horizontal section taken on line VIII VIII, Fig. VI. Fig. IX is an enlarged View similar to Fig. VI, illustrating one of' the lower hinges of the guard-supporting uprights. Fig. X is a vertical section taken on line X X, Fig. IX, with the hinge members in assembled condition.

1 designates the window-posts of a streetcar, and 2 the window-sills, on which the lower sashes 3 rest when in elevated position.

9 designates uprights that constitute the supporting members or guards at one end of each guard-section, and 10 designates uprights that are located at the ends of the guard-sections opposite those at which the supportingeuprights are present. Aside from the uprights 9 and 10 the guard-sections may.

consist either of horizontally-disposed bars 11, set into the uprights 9 and 10, or frames 12, containing woven-wire netting 13 and secured to said uprights. The upper portions 9 and 10 of the uprights 9 and 10 are of flat form, and the lower portions 9 and 10 are of L shape in cross-section, the L shape of the members extending downwardly from points immediately beneath the upper sashes to the lower ends of the members. The guard-supporting uprights 9 are arranged in mating pairs and hinged together, while the other uprights, 10, are arranged in pairs free from each other and adapted to be secured against the side of the car and swing outwardly when the guards are moved into open position by virtue of the hinge connection of the supporting-uprights. The hinges uniting the upper portions 9 of the uprights 9 consist of pintles 14, secured to the window-posts 1, and eyes 15, carried by the uprights, to be re movably fitted to said pintles. (See Figs. I, IV, and V.) The hinges of the lower portions of the uprights 9 consist of pintles 16, secured to the window-posts 1, and eyes 17, carried by the outwardly-extending flanges or wings of the uprights. (See Figs. I, IX, and X.) The uprights 10 are united to the window-posts alternating between those to which the up rights 9 are hinged by turn-buttons 18. (See Figs. I to III, inclusive, and VI to VIII, inclusive.) The shanks of these turn-buttons are rotatively seated at theirinner ends in plates 19, secured to the window-posts, (see Figs. VII

and V111,) and the uprights are cut out at to permit the passage of the turn-button, including its head, between the uprights when the guards are moved into open and closed positions.

1n the practical use of my guard and sashretainer the guards are firmly secured to the window-posts for the usual utility of preventing persons riding in the car from leaning through the window when the lower sashes are lowered or passing their arms through the windows, in either instance of which there is danger. At the same time the uprights of the guards by direct attachment to the windowposts and projecting over the edges of the sashes at their ends serve to retain said sashes against outward movement without the need of any otherfastening at the exterior of the car for the sashes. The construction therefore provides for the ready removal of the sashes in an outward direction when the guards are removed from the car, and as their removal requires only the turning of the buttons 18 to release the uprights 10 and the lifting of the guards to separate the hinges of the uprights 9 it will be seen that the process of preparing a car equipped with my improvement for painting or repairing is one that can be very quickly carried out.

1 claim as my invention- 1. 1n anarticle of the character described, the combination of uprights, means whereby a portion of said uprights are hinged together in pairs, guard means connecting said uprights, and means for securing the unhinged uprights, substantially as set forth.

2. In an article of the character described, the combination of hinged members for at- 3. In an article of the character described, 1

the combination with the wall of a car containing window-ways, of a pair of guard members, and means whereby said guard members are jointly and detachably connected to the car at said window-ways, substantially as set forth.

4. A guard comprising a plurality of uprights, window-way guard portions interposed between said uprights, and means whereby a portion of said uprights are hinged together and secured to the window-posts of a car in pairs, and means whereby the remainder of the uprights are held in pairs to others of the car-window posts, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination with the window-posts of a car, of hinge-pintles carried bya portion of said posts and turn-buttons carried by the remainder of said posts, pairs of uprights provided with hinge members for association with said hinge-pintles, separate pairs of uprights adapted to be engaged by said buttons, and window-way guard portions interposed between said separated pairs of uprights, substantially as set forth.

EDWARD T. ROBINSON.

1n presence of- M. O. MURPHY, A. DIEKMANN. 

